'This is why your wife doesn’t want to be touched in bed tonight'

A mum's letter to her husband, explaining why she would prefer not to be touched, is going viral.

It's hilarious and very, very much to the point.

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Mother-of-two Laura Mazza writes about motherhood with refreshing (and occasionally brutal) honesty on her blog, The Mum on the Run. In a Facebook post this week, she decided to do mums everywhere a favour and explain to her husband – and every husband – why the mother of his children might not always be ... in the mood.

Mazza then proceeds to catalogue the many and various other demands that have been made of her personal space on this particular day.

"Because today she spent about an hour arguing with the toddler how she gave him the EXACT cup he asked for, and she never promised nor do they even own a Santa cup," she begins.

"Because she was touched excessively by young people who have seriously sticky fingers. Even her eyeballs were touched today."

She has a point. There's really only so much touching one person can take.

Then there's the children's vomit on her finally-washed hair. The ruined paperwork. The sleeves that now double as snot-wipers. The toys dropped in the toilet the moment she's had a chance to poo. The interrupted showers. Teething.

On top of all that, there are the demands of the outside world as well. Her brain, Mazza writes, "is fried."

"So her half-shaved legs and chachki are going to bed and they’ll see you around 6/7am when she’s had a rest and ready to roar again ..." she finishes up.

"That is, of course, unless the children wake overnight. Then you can assume tomorrow is a no too."

Mazza's post has over 1,200 likes and has been shared more than 100 times.

There's an army of mothers out there with no time to poo in peace. And they're reclaiming their time.

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